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Agreed, Linux gaming has finally gotten to the point where it's actually pretty good, largely thanks to Valve's efforts. I'm grateful to them for that.

I do also worry that it'll eventually stop, but right now, with the competition essentially actively discouraging native Linux ports (EGS exclusives with no support for Linux downloads)... well, I'll take whatever I can get with open arms.

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You say that but while there's a few good games but not that many and if you talk to anyone that games on Linux I guaranty you that we all own all those games.

I think the author above is including Proton, which actually works pretty well for many Windows games running on Linux.

Eh, who cares how it works? What matters to me is that I want to play games on Linux[0] and I can.

[0] Well, I say want to, but I literally do not own a Windows machine, so it's more that I only can play games that work, in any reasonable way, on *nix.

I don't understand such comments. Maybe if you're chasing the latest AAA game. But all the last games I bought had Linux versions. Back in the era of Loki games, maybe what you said was true, but that's 20 years ago now.

It's easier to count the games that are hostile to Linux these days, and they're usually exclusive to Epic anyway.

I'm talking AAA games available on steam without having to run something like WINE.

I like games with strong immersion and narrative and on Linux that's restricted to Alien Isolation, the BioShock series, the Metro series, etc. and that's something which is rare on Linux unfortunately.

I, like many Linux users, have a windows boot partition just for games and the few Windows applications that I can't get on Linux I'd rather not have to do it but it is what it is.

I don't understand the need for the arbitrary "without running something like wine" distinction. Wine has gotten head and shoulders better in the past year or so. Between the gallium nine direct 3d state tracker which gives better performance in Linux than in windows for directx 9 games, (!!) dxvk giving directx 11 support, <edit> vkd3d adding directx 12 support,</edit> and Valve's seamless integration of wine in the Linux steam client, wine is just peachy.

If your objection to wine is philosophical as opposed to practical, why is dual booting into Windows an alternative?

I must admit I didn't realise Valve had WINE integration into Steam. When I used to do it I had to have a separate steam client which ran under WINE.

Basically I don't have the time to tinker anymore, I want things to work and I don't want to violate licensing agreements.

It's an option in the menu now and it just works.

Nice, I'll have to check it out.

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